Who needs to calculate loads and harmonics and other stupid mathy things?
Rut Roh
Apparently nothing is more important than diversity!
It’s not their fault, they were unduly influenced by their husbands, fathers and sons.
Democrats have done enough damage in FL. Will people ever learn?
Can’t wait to see the media spin on this disaster!
“MCM was awarded the $14.2 million minority contract to design and build the cable-stayed bridge. “
Well the “minority contract” designer and builder company made the “big time” in the killing fields of the construction business!
See, see! Them bump stocks again!
There is some seriously bad logic going on here to imply that gender played any role in this, when you consider that nearly all of the failures of bridges, buildings, dirigibles, airliners, etc down through history were likely designed by all male engineering teams.
Hey, quit snarking women engineers
I went to Ga Tech and one of the brightest students I knew
Was a 6’ tall, blond, bombshell Architect
Played Trombone too, very well
This whole thing stinks... $14 million for a simple pedestrian walkway that was over engineered by a minority contractor that got the contract for political connections, ethnicity, and race, rather than competence. Then, or rather, now, people want to blame it on their attempt at diversity? Since when is an all-women team the high point of diversity?
Hey, quit snarking women engineers
I went to Ga Tech and one of the brightest students I knew
Was a 6’ tall, blond, bombshell Architect
Played Trombone too, very well
My Father was a member of a combat engineer battalion in WWII. I have a copy of the official army history of the battalion.
Fairly early in the war, the commanding officer, Lt. Col. Scott, stopped all operations for a week long lesson for his officers on how to properly construct bridges.
I got the idea that someone had screwed one up.
Hiring employees for their gender and not for their capabilities. What could go wrong 0bama?
<My scholarship currently focuses on applying liberative pedagogies in engineering education, leveraging best practices from women’s studies and ethnic studies to engage students in creating a democratic classroom that encourages all voices. In 2005 I received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support this work, which includes developing, implementing, and assessing curricular and pedagogical innovations based on liberative pedagogies and student input at Smith, and understanding how students at Smith conceptualize their identities as engineers. I seek as an engineering educator to be part of a paradigm shift that these pedagogies demand, repositioning concerns about diversity in science and engineering from superficial measures of equity as headcounts, to addressing justice and the genuine engagement of all students as core educational challenges.I seek to revise engineering curricula to be relevant to a fuller range of student experiences and career destinations, integrating concerns related to public policy, professional ethics and social responsibility; de-centering Western civilization; and uncovering contributions of women and other underrepresented groups.
She will come to Purdue from Virginia Tech. This is an excerpt from her faculty page there:
Riley’s research interests include engineering and social justice; engineering ethics; social inequality in engineering education; and the liberal education of engineers. In 2005 she received a National Science Foundation CAREER award on implementing and assessing critical and feminist pedagogies in engineering classrooms. Students in Riley’s research group are pursuing interests including culturally inclusive pedagogies; understanding faculty motivations and approaches to teaching engineering ethics; connections between critical thinking and engineering ethics pedagogies; engineering education policy; and public participation in engineering projects impacting communities.
Let me simplify all this gobbledygook for you: EXPECT MORE BRIDGES TO FALL DOWN.
“Obama Diversified, People Died”
“... build the cable-stayed bridge.”
And without the cables - it didn’t stay. Seems pretty obvious the bridge needed its cables. It’s right there in the name!
I figured from the outset that some ‘minority’ preference was involved.
Looks like I was pretty much right...